Senior Data

19 hours ago

Calgary, AB, Canada Cenovus Energy Full-time
Worker Type: Employee Job Post End Date: 10/22/2026 About this opportunity

Cenovus is seeking a Senior Data & IT (D&IT) Business Office Advisor to support the financial management, governance, and value realization of D&IT investments. This office-based role will provide financial modeling, business case support, total cost of ownership analysis, forecasting, allocation/showback support, and executive-ready reporting across D&IT initiatives and G&A costs. Reporting to the Acting Senior Manager
- D&IT Business Office and Process Governance, the role is an individual contributor position that leads through influence and partners closely with D&IT, Finance, Business Services, project delivery teams, and business leaders. The successful candidate will bring strong financial discipline, SAP experience, project exposure, business case rigor, and the ability to translate financial and portfolio insights into practical recommendations that improve decision quality and business value. What you’ll do

Provide financial management support across planning, budgeting, financial modeling, multi-year forecasting, cost estimating, accruals, journal entries, and ongoing investment tracking for D&IT initiatives and G&A costs. Develop, review, and steward business case information from opportunity identification through implementation, maintaining traceability of assumptions, risks, decisions, total cost of ownership, costs, benefits, and expected value. Apply economic and investment analysis, including NPV, IRR, payback, scenario/sensitivity analysis, ROI narratives, and cost/benefit analysis to support needs analysis, approvals, portfolio prioritization, and benefits realization tracking. Use SAP and related financial data to interpret cost structures, commitments/actuals, reporting outputs, allocation/showback information, and financial trends that support accurate budgeting, forecasting, and decision making. Produce executive-level reporting and governance materials for demand intake, triage, stage gates, steering or working committee reviews, portfolio updates, and investment decision records. Partner with D&IT, Finance, Business Services, project delivery teams, business leaders, and other stakeholders to consolidate requirements, translate them into D&IT deliverables, and improve value management, reporting consistency, process alignment, and governance quality. Who you are

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum

requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada. Post-secondary degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, Information Technology, or a related discipline. 8+ years of experience spanning financial management, business case development, portfolio management, project governance, strategy execution, or technology investment analysis. Strong financial background with demonstrated experience in planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, cost estimating, benefits realization, and executive reporting. Strong SAP experience, including the ability to interpret SAP financial data, cost structures, commitments/actuals, and reporting outputs to support decision making. Experience with total cost of ownership, business cases, project costing, benefits analysis, economic modeling, NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity/scenario analysis, and ROI narratives. Strong communication, storytelling, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, influencing, and consensus-building skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced cross-functional environment while managing multiple priorities and applying pragmatic, value-focused governance. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement. Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT October 22, 2026 Who we are

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. Find Cenovus on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Total rewards

Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff) Health & dental benefits Substantial mental health coverage Life insurance Disability benefits Employee family assistance Virtual healthcare coverage Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employee